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Using the harmonic series we can build an infinitely long bridge. It takes a very long time though. A faster method was discovered in 2009.

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Overhang article:: http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/images/upload_library/22/Robbins/Patterson1.pdf

Maximum overhang article:: http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/upload_library/22/Robbins/Patterson2.pdf

Physical limitations:: quantamagazine.org/20161117-overhang-insights-puzzle

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BookStackingProblem.html

There’s actually more than one way to build an infinitely long bridge. The traditional method is shown in many calculus classes but a super-fast method of building this bridge was demonstrated by two mathematicians in 2009.

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